Toy desk telephone



Sept; 23, 1924.

N. N. HILL TOY. DESK TELEPHONE:

Filed July 21, 1922- Patented Sept. 23, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NORMAN N. HILL, EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE N. N. HILL BRASS COL, OF EAST HAMPTON, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

TOY DESK TELEPHONE.

Application filed July 21,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NORMAN N. HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at East Hampton, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Desk Telephones; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawings and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application and represent, in-- Fig. 1 a View in side elevation of a toy desk-telephone constructed in accordance with my invention.

Fig. 2 a view thereof in rear elevation.

Fig. 3 a view thereof in transverse section on the broken line 33 of Fig. 1.

Fig. t an enlarged view in elevation of the bell-mechanism with the gong removed and the standard broken away.

My invention relates to an improved toy desk-telephone, the object being to provide, at a low cost for manufacture, a simple, durable and pleasing toy constructed with particular reference to enabling the child using it to easily ring the bell while holding the transmittenportion of the toy in one hand, and the receiver thereof in the other hand.

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a toy desk-telephone characterized by having a bell-operating lever positioned to be included within the hand g asping the standard, so as to be operated by a gripping and relaxing action of the hand, while the same retains its hold upon the standard.

My invention further consists in a toy desk-telephone having certain details of con struction and combinations of parts as will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I employ a dummy transmitter 5 facing forwardly and pivotally mounted upon a post 6 rising from a cap 7 applied to the upper end of a standard 8 furnished with a circular base 9 to which isattached a braided cord 10 running to a dummy receiver 11 normally suspended in a dummy receiver-hook 12 rigidly secured by a screw 13 to the left-hand side of a band or clip 14 clamped upon the said standard. The ends 1922. Serial No. 576,649.

of the said band are rearwardly extended to form parallel clamping lugs 15 receiving a clamping-screw 16 upon which I pivotally mount a depending, belloperating lever 17 located between the said lugs, which prevent its sidewise movement, and arranged vertically and substantially parallel with the said standard, though, by preference, the lever will normally stand with a slight outward rake with respect to the face thereof.

The said lever is thus positioned directly back of and adjacent to the rear face of the standard and in line therewith, and is, therefore, included naturally and as a matter of course within the hand grasping the standard and, consequently, falls easily and completely under the control of the hand, as the same is contracted and relaxed, no special reaching effort of the fingers being required to operate it. To permit the lever to be so grasped and operated, it is extended below the bell, which is located in front of the standard, as will presently be described.

Th said screw 16 also mounts a bellactuator made, as shown, of a single piece of wire and comprising a coil 18 through which the screw passes, a depending arm 19 lying within and engaged by the lever 17 and a horizontal arm 20 extending from rear to front through a clearance-passage 21 formed transversely in the standard 8 and also through a vertical clearance-slot 22 in the back of a cuplike bell-housing 23 rigidly secured to the front of the band or clip 14, and, therefore, at a point opposite the lugs 15 thereof, and virtually under the dummy transn'iitter 5. The extreme end of the said arm 20 enters a hole 24: in the arm 25 of the rack 26 of the bell-mechanism proper, the said arm 25 being hung upon a stud 27 in the bell-housing 23. As shown, the rack 26 meshes into a pinion 28, turning on a stud 29 and carrying a wheel 30 meshing into a pinion 31 turning on a stud 32 and mounting a two-armed striker-carrier 83 furnished at its ends with loose strikers 34; which, when thrown outward, hit the gong 36 for the sounding of the bell. A spring 37, attached to the arm 25 and to the housing 23, as shown in Fig. 4, normally holds the rack 26 in its depressed position and the bell-operating lever 19 in its normal position, or at the limit of its outward movement away from the standard, the lever being stopped in this position by the engage- .graspsboth the standard 8 and the lever 19 within tlie right-hand at the same time-and exerts pressure upon the latter by closing the hand, the tension of the spring 37 is overcomeiand thele-ver 25 is lifted, with the effect of causing the rack .26 to setthe bellmechanism in operation for rotating the striker-earrier33 and-so sounding the bell.

The instant that pressureuponthelever 19 is'relaxed by. somewhat u-nclosing the'hand,

the spring 37 exerts itself torestore the parts tolthenormaluposition, during which action .thebell is again sounded. The child, meanwhile, may be supposed to be holding the receiverito the ear with one hand, while grasping the standard and easily operating the bell'withthe other hand, 'by naturally closing and: ainclosing the same, which cannot-be done in toy desk-telephones in which the IBCQlVBIPllO'Ok:flTLHSt be operated or jig- .gled for: ringing the bell.

.I 'wouldohave .it understood that I do not limit myself toitheexact construction shown herein.- andv described, as the various features or the toy maybe modified, both in. form-and construction, without departing from my present invention, which is characterized by the use of a bell-operating; leverxpositioned to be. included within th e hand graspingthe 'stan.dard,.-socas to bewoperated by a closing andeunclosing action: of the hand while the same retains its grip uponthe standard.

.I claim:

.1. aitoy desk-telephone, the combination with a base, of a-standard: rising there from, a-transmitter surmounting the standard, a receiver connected by a cordwith the toyya bell offsetting from the .upper portion ofthe standard, an operatingdever arranged insubstantial alignment with the said standard-and pivotally connected at its upper end therewith'at a point opposite the said bell,

and a bell-actuator extending transversely through the standard and connecting the said bell and lever, whereby the bell is operated by a closing and unelosing aetionot the hand upon the said lever, while the same retains its grasp upon the standard.

2. In-a toy desk-telephone, the combination with a base, of a standard rising there- .from, a transmitter surmounting the standvwith the said standard and pivotally eonnected at its upper end therewith at a point opposite the said bell, and a bell-actuator extending I transversely through the standard and connecting the bell with the said operating-lever, which is operated by a elosing and'unclosing action of the hand, while the same retains its grasp upon the standard.

In a toy desk-tele 'ihone, the combination with a. base, of a-standard rising there from, a transmitter surl-nounting the standard, a receiver connected bya cord with the toy, a clamp mounted upon the upper portion ofthe standard, a. bell applied to the said clamp at a point under the transmitter inthenormal position thereof, a receiverhook rigidly connected with the said clamp .and extending horizontally outward from the-standard in a line at a right angle to the axis of the bell, an operating lever pivotally mounted in the said chimp in close proximity to the standard with which it is substantially aligned, anda bell-actuator extending transversely through the standard and connecting the hell with the said lever. which isoperated by a closing and unelosing of i the i band, while the same retains its grasp upon the standard.

In. testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

NORMAN N. HILL. Witnesses:

MALCOLM P. NICHOLS, Gnonon D. Seymour. 

